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35. Silver, Latin Imitative Aspron Trachy Nomisma<br />

Latin Interregnum (Constantinople), 1204-1230/37<br />

Obverse<br />

DIAM: 27mm; 3.40 gm<br />

INSCRIBED: [](Jesus<br />

Christ)<br />

Bust of Christ, blessing with right hand,<br />

scroll held in left hand<br />

Reverse<br />

DIAM: 25 mm; 3.40 gm<br />

INSCRIBED: / /(Archangel Michael)<br />

Archangel Michael standing, wearing short military<br />

tunic and cape, in right hand holds scepter with<br />

trefoil tip, in left hand a globus cruciger<br />

36. Silver, Aspron Trachy (Concave) of Theodore I,<br />

Emperor of Nicaea<br />

Byzantine (Nicaea – Magnesia), 1208-1212<br />

Obverse<br />

DIAM: 31mm; 3.70 gm<br />

INSCRIBED: <br />

(Jesus Christ)<br />

Christ seated upon straight-back throne,<br />

blesses with His right hand, holds Gospels<br />

in His left<br />

Reverse<br />

DIAM: 28mm; 3.70 gm<br />

INSCRIBED: No inscription preserved<br />

Standing figure of emperor on left<br />

and of St. Theodore on right,<br />

holding between them long scepter,<br />

crowned by a star <br />

Emperor wears stemma, divitision,<br />

jeweled loros of simplified type<br />

and sagion; in his right hand holds<br />

sheathed sword, point downward,<br />

Saint wears short military tunic,<br />

breastplate, and sagion, holds in his left<br />

hand sheathed sword, point downward<br />

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